In my flag waving post...
What happened to Brendan Eich is exactly the wrong way to handle political disagreement.
What was announced is that if you disagree with the winners in a particular political issue on your own time with your own money your livelihood is at risk.
He was forced to resign for backing the losing side in the gay marriage debate.
Did he preach at work? No.
Did he change any policies at Mozilla to make it unfriendly to homosexuals? No.
He donated money in the course of peaceful political discourse.
And was excoriated for it when the donation list was made public.
I am unsatisfied about the circumstances surrounding the release of that list.
But knowing that your political donations can be made public and your donations to any given cause can be used as grounds for termination? It's known as having a chilling effect on such donations.
As I am sure the people who leaked that list were well aware of.
What happened to Brendan Eich is exactly the wrong way to handle political disagreement.
What was announced is that if you disagree with the winners in a particular political issue on your own time with your own money your livelihood is at risk.
He was forced to resign for backing the losing side in the gay marriage debate.
Did he preach at work? No.
Did he change any policies at Mozilla to make it unfriendly to homosexuals? No.
He donated money in the course of peaceful political discourse.
And was excoriated for it when the donation list was made public.
I am unsatisfied about the circumstances surrounding the release of that list.
But knowing that your political donations can be made public and your donations to any given cause can be used as grounds for termination? It's known as having a chilling effect on such donations.
As I am sure the people who leaked that list were well aware of.